20 movies like Drums in the Deep South, ordered by similarity : Gone With the Wind(1939), Glory(1989), Antony and Cleopatra(1972), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Flesh and the Devil(1926), Tolkien(2019), A Small Circle of Friends(1980), Scarred Hearts(2016), Carve Her Name With Pride(1958), With Fire & Sword(1999), The Great Locomotive Chase(1956), Lizzie(2018) ...
Drama, History
USA
1951
87 Minutes
James Craig Barbara Payton Guy Madison Barton MacLane Craig Stevens Tom Fadden Robert Osterloh Taylor Holmes Robert Easton Lewis Martin Peter Brocco
southern belle military officer soldier husband best friend major melodramatic thrilling suspenseful georgia plantation mountain railway american civil war friendship betrayal doomed romance espionage military occupation rivalry
Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
Romance, History, Drama
USA
1939
222 Minutes
Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard Olivia de Havilland Thomas Mitchell Barbara O'Neil Victor Jory Laura Hope Crews Hattie McDaniel Ona Munson Harry Davenport
ingénue soldier husband cousin slave emotional touching family home atlanta park household saloon georgia american civil war romance jealousy marriage friendship love triangle forbidden love
A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
War, Drama, History
USA
1989
122 Minutes
Matthew Broderick Denzel Washington Morgan Freeman Cary Elwes Jihmi Kennedy Andre Braugher John Finn Alan North Bob Gunton Cliff De Young Christian Baskous
soldier military officer friend slave gravedigger gutsy inspiring military base battlefield hospital maryland south carolina american civil war honor racism slavery social change military quest sacrifice
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Drama, History
UK|Spain|Switzerland
1972
160 Minutes
Charlton Heston Hildegard Neil Eric Porter John Castle Fernando Rey Juan Luis Galiardo
queen egyptian lover rival roman seducer brooding emotional gripping intense moving powerful egypt kingdom chamber desert love sacrifice rivalry power
After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Romance, Drama
USA
1926
113 Minutes
Greta Garbo John Gilbert Lars Hanson Barbara Kent William Orlamond George Fawcett Eugenie Besserer Marc McDermott Marcelle Corday Rolfe Sedan
soldier countess count friend uncle pastor melodramatic germany ballroom train station adultery friendship loyalty military violence love triangle forbidden love rivalry transformation 1920s
Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other once fiercely loved.
Biography, Drama, History
USA
2019
112 Minutes
Nicholas Hoult Lily Collins Colm Meaney Derek Jacobi Anthony Boyle Patrick Gibson Tom Glynn-Carney Craig Roberts Harry Gilby Adam Bregman Albie Marber
writer professor soldier child wife friend inspiring confident creative dreamy emotional battlefield england restaurant woods friendship love war storytelling biography
The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.
Drama
USA
1980
113 Minutes
Brad Davis Karen Allen Jameson Parker Shelley Long John Friedrich Gary Springer Craig Richard Nelson Harry Caesar Nan Martin Daniel Stern Severn Darden
man woman student friend soldier lover engaging melodramatic emotional harvard university campus massachusetts protest cafeteria relationships vietnam war friendship love triangle romance social activism
Harvard in the 1960's: a time of social upheaval and student unrest. Three students bond together, challenge the system and begin to lose their ideals.
Drama, History
2016
141 Minutes
Lucian Teodor Rus Gabriel Spahiu Ivana Mladenovic Ilinca Harnut Bogdan Cotlet Marius Damian Alexandru Dabija Dana Voicu Andrei Rus Liliana Ghita
sick person doctor nurse patient friend amusing profound powerful inspiring touching sanatorium hospital carriage office doctor's office hospital room life illness friendship relationships
Emanuel is committed to a sanatorium for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.
Drama, Biography, History
UK
1958
116 Minutes
Virginia McKenna Paul Scofield Jack Warner Denise Grey Alain Saury Maurice Ronet Anne Leon Sydney Tafler
spy woman man soldier husband daughter confident emotional engaging patriotic france england germany train concentration camp espionage war love death pursuit
During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
Drama, History
Poland
1999
183 Minutes
Izabella Scorupco Michal Zebrowski Aleksandr Domogarov Andrzej Seweryn Bogdan Stupka Krzysztof Kowalewski Zbigniew Zamachowski Wiktor Zborowski Wojciech Malajkat Ewa Wisniewska Ruslana Pysanka
soldier love interest fiancé aunt friend brash striking ukraine battlefield war love triangle chase kidnapping revolution adventure rescue love 17th century
An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.
Drama, History
USA
1956
85 Minutes
Fess Parker Jeffrey Hunter Jeff York John Lupton Eddie Firestone Kenneth Tobey Don Megowan Claude Jarman Jr. Harry Carey Jr. Slim Pickens Morgan Woodward
soldier spy conductor thrilling rousing railway georgia tennessee train train robbery espionage theft american civil war chase escape quest adventure 1860s
During the Civil War Union spy Andrews and his men volunteer to steal a Confederate train and drive it to Union territory while destroying the Confederate railway system along the way.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
USA
2018
105 Minutes
Chloë Sevigny Kristen Stewart Jamey Sheridan Fiona Shaw Kim Dickens Denis O'Hare Jeff Perry Jay Huguley
maid friend murderer father lover brooding intricate tense emotional uneasy massachusetts house forbidden love lizzie borden father/daughter relationship haunted houses murder trial forbidden love rivalry
A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of Lizzie Andrew Borden's family.
Romance, Adventure, Drama, History, War
USA
1992
114 Minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis Madeleine Stowe Russell Means Eric Schweig Jodhi May Steven Waddington Wes Studi Maurice Roeves Patrice Chéreau
sister frontiersman colonel native american traitor brother thrilling powerful melodramatic new york state fort wilderness waterfall indian village adirondack mountains brotherhood changing times loyalty cross-cultural romance abduction
Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.
Drama, History
Germany|France
2006
137 Minutes
Martina Gedeck Ulrich Mühe Sebastian Koch Ulrich Tukur Thomas Thieme Hans-Uwe Bauer Herbert Knaup Volkmar Kleinert Matthias Brenner Charly Hübner
spy playwright actress lover officer dark tense emotional east berlin apartment communism espionage loyalty love sympathy surveillance quest rivalry love 1980s
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
War, Drama, History
1927
139 Minutes
Clara Bow Charles Rogers Richard Arlen Jobyna Ralston Gary Cooper El Brendel Arlette Marchal Richard Tucker Julia Swayne Gordon Henry B. Walthall George Irving
pilot cadet friend love interest volunteer military officer rousing suspenseful emotional paris small town air force base airplane world war i friendly fire friendship patriotism duty horrors of war adventure
Two World War I pilots (Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen) woo a young woman (Clara Bow) and fight the Germans.
Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2018
124 Minutes
Saoirse Ronan Margot Robbie Jack Lowden Joe Alwyn David Tennant Guy Pearce Gemma Chan Martin Compston Ismael Cruz Cordova Brendan Coyle Ian Hart
queen widow rival husband leader friend tense intense gripping brash uneasy france scotland england castle mansion queen elizabeth i queen mary power royalty
Mary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Drama, History
France|Germany
2016
113 Minutes
Pierre Niney Paula Beer Ernst Stötzner Marie Gruber Johann von Bülow Anton von Lucke Cyrielle Claire Alice De Lencquesaing
widow veteran mysterious man soldier confident dreamy emotional intense france house lake train station world war i grief love friendship love triangle life after wartime love discovery
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
Romance, War, Drama
1943
163 Minutes
Emeric Pressburger Roger Livesey Deborah Kerr Anton Walbrook John Laurie James McKechnie Neville Mapp
soldier major general teacher nurse nazi gripping melodramatic witty england pow camp south africa germany love friendship war aging military love transformation sacrifice
A Boer War subaltern (Roger Livesey) becomes a World War II colonel, with three lovers (Deborah Kerr) along the way.
Romance, Action, Drama, History
2010
139 Minutes
Mélanie Thierry Lambert Wilson Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Gaspard Ulliel Raphaël Personnaz Eric Rulliat Samuel Theis Michel Vuillermoz Judith Chemla Philippe Magnan César Domboy
marquis prince soldier heiress mother father tender spectacular passionate brooding battlefield castle courtyard mountain bedroom france religious wars social climbing arranged marriage battle
In 16th-century France, Marie de Mezières marries for her father's political gain, and when war breaks out, she becomes exposed to sexual and political intrigues of court.
Drama
UK
1983
95 Minutes
gallery owner literary agent publisher wife best friend husband crafty gripping powerful melodramatic london pub apartment infidelity love triangle romance deception betrayal friendship love
An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife. The story unfolds in reverse-chronological order.